Albus Vanitas Albino Bats & Horse Skull Metal Print
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Four bats. One skull. A candle's worth of light in the eye sockets.
Albus Vanitas is a museum-style still life built from a single obsession: what happens when Dutch Golden Age vanitas painting collides with a curiosity cabinet. Four albino bats circle a weathered horse skull in a slow, deliberate rotation, one presses its face into the glowing socket, one hangs from the jaw, one spreads its wings overhead. Dried botanicals, autumn leaves, black berries, and cobwebs frame the composition against a void of pure black.
The whole piece is rendered in thick impasto brushwork with the aged crackle and yellowed varnish of a 400-year-old oil painting, ivory bone, deep charcoal shadow, and dark crimson, lit by a single dramatic light source from the upper left.
Why brushed aluminum for this piece: unlike a standard print, brushed aluminum uses a metallic silver base with no white ink layer, so the bats' fur and the bone of the skull print directly onto brushed metal and pick up a faint natural sheen instead of flat white. It's a genuine match for a piece built around ghost-white fur and an inner glow.
- Premium 3mm aluminum dibond, brushed metallic silver base, horizontal grain
- 7-colour UV direct print for deep colour and a sense of physical depth
- Matte, glare-free finish; brushed sheen on the lighter tones
- Scratch-resistant, moisture-resistant — built for years on the wall
- Ready to hang, hanging hardware included, no framing needed
- Available 8x12" up to 24x36", all in the original 2:3 composition ratio
- Part of a four-piece Gothic Halloween series — pairs with the other three animal-skull vanitas prints
Part of the Halloween collection now, but designed to hold its own on a gallery wall in July. Dark academia, cottagecore-gothic, and oddities-and-curiosities decor lovers — this one's built to stay up all year.
Size Chart (Brushed Aluminum, 2:3 ratio)
| Size (in) | Suggested use |
|---|---|
| 8x12" | Small accent, gallery wall filler |
| 12x18" | Standalone statement in a small room |
| 16x24" | Popular mid-size, above furniture |
| 20x30" | Living room / hallway focal point |
| 24x36" | Large statement piece |
All sizes ship with a complimentary hanging kit (magnet, hanger, or French cleat — supplier-assigned, no framing needed).